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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
4) Skylark
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
6) Winter
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Lunar chronicles volume 4
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800L
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Welcome to the Moon. Widely admired Princess Winter takes the ultimate stand against her manipulative stepmother, Queen Levana, by starting a revolution to win a long-fought war. The time has come for Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, and their allies to battle the dangerously wicked queen in this conclusion to the Lunar Chronicles series.
7) Chime
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In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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2021.
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"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to who the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
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Grimmtastic girls volume 3
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Worried that her stepmother may be a member of the E.V.I.L. society, Snow White joins her friends to stop the society's plans to destroy Grimm Academy, but her bad luck seems to be jinxing all of their efforts.
11) Bluecrowne
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Greenglass House volume 3
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Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all...
12) Cinderella
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[2015]
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Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
15) Cinderella
Pub. Date
2005, c1949
Edition
Standard format; Platinum ed.; Special ed.
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A slighted beauty outshines her evil stepsisters at a royal ball, then returns to her grim existence before the handsome prince finds her again.
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KEY News thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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Film and theater critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theater festival will be easy, until her complicated relationship with her stepdaughter Meg grows even more tense, and two of Meg's friends are killed in what looks to be a tragic accident. As Caroline gets drawn into a web of madness, deception, and insanity, she finds she can trust no one.
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c2009
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1st ed.
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This is the way the world ends...
It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn—handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three—chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak of the Phoenix flu, passengers had become even more difficult and nervous, and a life of constant travel had grown harder.) She could move into Mark Dorn's...
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Nicole is warmly anticipating the arrival of Christmas at her new Nantucket home when she learns that her stepdaughter, Kennedy, is coming to the island for the holidays and hoping to reconcile her parents. Kennedy's little Maddox is precious, but Kennedy is more than a handful. Kennedy's plan even seems to be working when Nicole spots Kennedy's mother. Luckily, other unexpected visitors could just pull off a Christmas miracle.
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